Chinese Character 館 Meanings and components.

Form

館

Meaning

館 meaning[3] in English

Building.

Shop.

Term For Certain Service Establishments.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 館 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are to eat (食) , and surname Guan (官)

Its radical[1] is: 食 (shi2) which means: To Eat, Food, Animal Feed, Eclipse, .食shi2to eat

In cangjie it is written with OIJRR

How to write 館

To write館guan3building you should write a combination of 食shi2to eat , 官guan1surname Guan arranged in a 吅 shape:

食 + 官 = 館

館 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 館 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 館, looks as follow:

館
Pinyin:guan3 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Building . Shop . Term For Certain Service Establishments . Embassy Or Consulate . Schoolroom (Old) . Cl:家[Jia1]
食
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: To Eat . Food . Animal Feed . Eclipse
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
良
Pinyin:liang2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Good . Very . Very Much
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
艮
Pinyin:gen3
Meaning[3]: Blunt . Tough . Chewy
官
Pinyin:guan1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Guan
宀
Pinyin:mian2
Meaning[3]: 'Roof' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 40), Occurring In 家, 定, 安 Etc . See Also 寶蓋|宝盖[Bao3 Gai4]
㠯
Pinyin:yi3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 以[Yi3]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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